This week in history: March 17-23
Uganda cult massacre; trial of Baader-Meinhof group; Belgium government collapses; British fascists seize Communist Party leader
Uganda cult massacre; trial of Baader-Meinhof group; Belgium government collapses; British fascists seize Communist Party leader
NYC police murder Patrick Dorismond; Vietnamese NLF captures Ban Me Thuot; Israel adopts law to expropriate Palestinian refugees; Nazi assassinates Austrian Jewish writer
Film documents Iraqi child deaths; Israeli slaughter at Savoy Hotel; US coal miners strike ends; Britain bombs Pashtun tribesmen
This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago.
Mass protest against neo-fascists in Austria; Wildcat strike by Youngstown steelworkers; Egypt, Israel agree on Gaza border; Chinese emperor relocated by Japan
Mugabe loses constitution vote; Thatcher to head British Tories; Stalin-Mao sign treaty; Kurdish revolt in Turkey.
Sri Lankan civil war; mass evacuation in Haicheng earthquake; McCarthy gives first anti-communist speech; Nepal abolishes slavery
Washington shifts towards India; Church Committee established into CIA, FBI crimes; Truman backs development of H-bomb; dogsleds deliver diphtheria antitoxins in Alaska.
This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago
Rally against Confederate flag; Deng Xiaoping reinstated; Soviet Union boycotts UN; imperialist powers fight over China
Öcalan death sentence delayed; Soviet Union launches Soyuz 17; Nkrumah independence campaign in Gold Coast; Polish nationalist campaign on Danzig.
NY state to pay Attica victims; top Nixon aides convicted in Watergate scandal; Soviet trial of Japanese war criminals; Stalin steps up slander of Trotsky.
Ivory Coast military coup; Vietnamese launch battle of Phuoc Long; Massacre by South Korean military; Mussolini’s violence exposed
This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago
This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago
Child tried for manslaughter in Australia; Greece abolishes monarchy; UNRWA established for Palestinian aid; Erich von Stroheim’s “Greed” premieres
This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago
Myanmar-Thailand border clash; UN recognizes Palestinian “right of return”;British Labour government nationalizes iron and steel industry; first Australopithecus skull discovered.
This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago.
This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago